Word: shiraz
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...expertise in Persian studies led Frye to leave Harvard temporarily to become director of the Asia Institute at the University of Shiraz in Iran from 1967 to 1975. And it was while he was working at the Institute, coordinating programs for Middle Eastern students, that he collected much of the information with which he currently performs his own research on ancient Persian culture, including scrolls and reproductions of inscriptions which are more than 1500 years...
...principal varietals, such as Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay, are familiar to U.S. buyers. Nonetheless, winemakers Down Under are carefree about tradition, and some of their practices are downright heretical by American or French standards: for example, blending Cabernet Sauvignon, a red grape from the Bordeaux area, with Shiraz, a Rhone Valley varietal known in France as the Syrah. Labels can be confusing as well; the Australians use a lot of mysterious bin numbers, which are intended to denote wines of special quality...
...sake of today's potential profits. A relatively small group of medium- and large-size firms accounts for some 90% of Australia's wine output. Until this year, many of the independent growers who supply such major Down Under producers as Penfolds, Seppelt and Lindeman's were rooting out Shiraz (even though it makes some of the country's most distinctive wines) and replanting with the more fashionable Cabernet Sauvignon...
Johnson's heroine is Chloe Fowler; she and Jeffrey, her husband of twelve years and a renowned thoracic surgeon, take off for a two-month visit to a medical school and hospital in Shiraz, where he will serve as a consultant and she will pursue a brief study of Sassanian pottery. Awaiting a connecting flight in London, Jeffrey learns of an emergency in his medical practice and decides to return to San Francisco. He urges Chloe to go on ahead without him; Sara and Max, their two small children, will be fine with the plans already made for their care...
IRAN AIR. In July 1983 a jumbo jet bound from Shiraz in southwestern Iran to Tehran was hijacked with 386 passengers aboard by six Iranians opposed to Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. After diverting the plane to Paris, Massoud Rajavi, an exiled leader of the mujahedin opposition to Khomeini, encouraged the hijackers to surrender. One inducement: they would be tried in French courts instead of being deported to Iran. No passengers were harmed...